Anthony Trollope

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Life is so unlike theory.